different between diverticulum vs polyp

English

Etymology

From Latin d?verticulum, alternative form of d?verticulum (“byroad; deviation”), from d?vert? (“turn away, turn aside”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??.v??.?t?.kj?.l?m/

Noun

diverticulum (plural diverticulums or diverticula)

1. (anatomy) A small out-pouching of an organ wall such as the large intestine or urinary bladder.
   • 2015, David Shaw, translating Giulia Enders, Gut, Scribe 2016, p. 16:

     Diverticula are small, light-bulb-shaped pouches in the bowel wall, resulting from the tissue in the gut bulging outwards under pressure.

Derived terms

Translations

Latin

Alternative forms

• d?verticulum
• d?vorticulum

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /di?.u?er?ti.ku.lum/, [d?i?u??r?t??k??????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /di.ver?ti.ku.lum/, [d?iv?r?t?i?kulum]

Noun

d?verticulum n (genitive d?verticul?); second declension

1. Alternative form of d?verticulum ("byroad").
2. (anatomy, New Latin, exclusively as diverticulum) A small growth off an organ of a body; diverticulum.
   • 1829, University of Groningen, Annales Academiae groninganae, Commentatio de diverticulus intestinorum, page 69:

     Baillie exemplum praebuit diverticuli coniuncti cum vitiis a ni?u formativo abnormi productis: illuc ?c. invenit in foetu, cui aderat omnium thoracis et abdominis viscerum ?itus inver?us, una cum partitione lienis in quinque lobos, uti in Cetaceis ?olet.

     Baillie provided an example of a diverticulum connected with defects extended by an abnormal formative impulse. To that point naturally it is found in a foetus, to whom an inverted position of all the internal organs of the abdomen and thorax is present, together with a separation of the spleen into five lobes, as is usual in cetaceans.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

References

• diverticulum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

English

Etymology

From Latin polypus (“a polyp, a polypus in the nose”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (polúpous), from ????? (polús, “many”) + ???? (poús, “foot”). Doublet of polypus.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?l?p/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p?l?p/
• Rhymes: -?l?p
• Hyphenation: pol?yp

Noun

polyp (plural polyps)

1. (medicine) an abnormal growth protruding from a mucous membrane
2. (zoology) a cylindrical coelenterate, such as the hydra, having a mouth surrounded with tentacles

Derived terms

• polypoid

Related terms

• polypian
• polyposis

Translations

Further reading

• polyp in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• polyp in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• polyp at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• loppy

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pol?p]

Noun

polyp m

1. (biology) polyp
2. (medicine) polyp

Derived terms

• polypí

Further reading

• polyp in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• polyp in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989